Data Protection Contracts in London

Data Protection
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Data Protection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 93 113
Rank change year-on-year -16 +20 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 312 447 593
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.51% 2.56% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 2.89% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 256 393
10th Percentile £266 £225 £359
25th Percentile £368 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £738
90th Percentile £758 £750 £825
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 2
10th Percentile £22.78 £11.95 £53.00
25th Percentile £26.19 £12.69 £55.63
Median hourly rate £30.40 £25.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.61% -60.00% +43.50%
75th Percentile £34.17 £51.25 £70.63
90th Percentile £36.64 £68.13 £74.00
England median hourly rate £29.62 £21.00 £48.52
% change year-on-year +41.02% -56.71% +115.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Data Protection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,457 15,493 23,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.21% 88.65% 90.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,746 11,112 16,978
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £680 £700
90th Percentile £808 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 307 266
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.77 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.75 £20.00 £22.43
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year +22.13% -25.10% +0.46%
75th Percentile £50.75 £48.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.85 £82.38
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.29% +45.58%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in London

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in London.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in London

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in London

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in London

Data Protection
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Protection in London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Protection in London

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection within the London region over the 6 months to 19 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +7 34 £525 -15.32% 28
South London +8 8 £734 +46.75% 16
West London +10 5 £340 +18.26% 11
East London +7 1 - - 4
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (6.09%) SharePoint
2 14 (4.49%) Confluence
3 5 (1.60%) CMS
4 4 (1.28%) SAS
5 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.64%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.64%) Drupal
6 2 (0.64%) JBoss
6 2 (0.64%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.64%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.64%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.32%) Apache
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
Applications
1 17 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (3.53%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.28%) Trello
5 3 (0.96%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.32%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.60%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.64%) BASE24
3 2 (0.64%) CiviCRM
3 2 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.64%) VisionPLUS
4 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.32%) Endur
4 1 (0.32%) iTrent
4 1 (0.32%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.32%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.32%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.32%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.32%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.32%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 53 (16.99%) Azure
2 47 (15.06%) AWS
3 27 (8.65%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (6.73%) Power Platform
5 19 (6.09%) SaaS
6 13 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
7 11 (3.53%) Amazon S3
7 11 (3.53%) Entra ID
7 11 (3.53%) GCP
8 10 (3.21%) Serverless
9 9 (2.88%) PaaS
10 8 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (2.56%) IaaS
11 7 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.92%) Lucidchart
12 6 (1.92%) Snowflake
13 5 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (1.60%) GitHub
14 4 (1.28%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.81%) Firewall
2 10 (3.21%) DNS
3 8 (2.56%) DHCP
4 5 (1.60%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.60%) VLAN
4 5 (1.60%) VPN
5 4 (1.28%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.28%) Network Security
5 4 (1.28%) SAN
5 4 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.96%) SSL
7 2 (0.64%) ATM
7 2 (0.64%) HTTP
7 2 (0.64%) Internet
7 2 (0.64%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.64%) LAN
7 2 (0.64%) NAS
7 2 (0.64%) SSH
7 2 (0.64%) WAN
7 2 (0.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.13%) Power BI
2 13 (4.17%) Tableau
3 9 (2.88%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.56%) Metadata
5 7 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.60%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (1.28%) Data Mining
7 4 (1.28%) QlikView
7 4 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.96%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.64%) Big Data
9 2 (0.64%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.64%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.64%) IMS/DB
9 2 (0.64%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (7.05%) JIRA
2 7 (2.24%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.96%) Git
3 3 (0.96%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.64%) GitLab
4 2 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.32%) ERwin
5 1 (0.32%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.32%) Maven
General
1 96 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 79 (25.32%) Finance
3 46 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.13%) Banking
4 16 (5.13%) Legal
5 13 (4.17%) Front Office
5 13 (4.17%) Law
6 11 (3.53%) Back Office
6 11 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.88%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.56%) Marketing
10 6 (1.92%) Police
11 5 (1.60%) Advertising
11 5 (1.60%) Local Government
12 3 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.96%) German Language
13 2 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.64%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 44 (14.10%) Analyst
2 30 (9.62%) Architect
3 24 (7.69%) Developer
3 24 (7.69%) Senior
4 23 (7.37%) Lead
5 19 (6.09%) Consultant
6 16 (5.13%) Project Manager
7 14 (4.49%) Business Analyst
8 11 (3.53%) Data Analyst
9 8 (2.56%) Data Manager
10 7 (2.24%) Security Architect
11 6 (1.92%) Administrator
11 6 (1.92%) Azure Architect
11 6 (1.92%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 6 (1.92%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
11 6 (1.92%) Java Developer
11 6 (1.92%) Site Engineer
11 6 (1.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 6 (1.92%) Support Engineer
12 5 (1.60%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.56%) RESTful
2 7 (2.24%) Kafka
3 6 (1.92%) XML
4 5 (1.60%) React
4 5 (1.60%) SOAP
5 4 (1.28%) GraphQL
5 4 (1.28%) Middleware
5 4 (1.28%) Spring
6 3 (0.96%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.96%) ARM Templates
6 3 (0.96%) Azure Blueprints
6 3 (0.96%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (0.96%) HTML
6 3 (0.96%) OAuth
6 3 (0.96%) REST
7 2 (0.64%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.64%) FHIR
7 2 (0.64%) Node.js
7 2 (0.64%) Protocol Buffers
7 2 (0.64%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 172 (55.13%) Data Protection Act
2 18 (5.77%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.53%) Onboarding
3 11 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.21%) Insider Threat
5 8 (2.56%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (1.92%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.60%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.60%) Derivative
8 5 (1.60%) Freedom of Information
8 5 (1.60%) Reference Data
8 5 (1.60%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.28%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.28%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.96%) Market Risk
10 3 (0.96%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 35 (11.22%) Windows
2 33 (10.58%) Linux
3 12 (3.85%) Unix
4 7 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.24%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.92%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.28%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.96%) CentOS
8 2 (0.64%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.64%) Solaris
9 1 (0.32%) AIX
9 1 (0.32%) Android
9 1 (0.32%) HPUX
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (16.03%) Project Management
3 47 (15.06%) Migration
3 47 (15.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 44 (14.10%) Agile
5 31 (9.94%) Risk Management
6 30 (9.62%) DevOps
7 29 (9.29%) Information Security
8 28 (8.97%) Analytics
8 28 (8.97%) CI/CD
9 25 (8.01%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (8.01%) Cybersecurity
10 23 (7.37%) ITIL
11 20 (6.41%) Business Intelligence
11 20 (6.41%) Roadmaps
12 18 (5.77%) Data Governance
12 18 (5.77%) Data Loss Prevention
12 18 (5.77%) Decision-Making
12 18 (5.77%) Infrastructure as Code
13 17 (5.45%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 46 (14.74%) Python
2 45 (14.42%) SQL
3 20 (6.41%) PowerShell
4 16 (5.13%) JavaScript
5 12 (3.85%) Java
6 8 (2.56%) C#
7 7 (2.24%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.60%) PHP
9 4 (1.28%) C++
9 4 (1.28%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.96%) Bicep
10 3 (0.96%) COBOL
10 3 (0.96%) Perl
10 3 (0.96%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.64%) ActionScript
11 2 (0.64%) ActionScript 2.0
11 2 (0.64%) Go
11 2 (0.64%) REXX
11 2 (0.64%) VBA
11 2 (0.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 37 (11.86%) Degree
2 30 (9.62%) Security Cleared
3 26 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.81%) CISSP
5 14 (4.49%) CISM
6 13 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.92%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.60%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.60%) CCNP
10 5 (1.60%) PMP
11 4 (1.28%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.28%) CISA
12 2 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.64%) CCIE
12 2 (0.64%) CCNA
12 2 (0.64%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.32%) CASP
13 1 (0.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (15.71%) GDPR
2 14 (4.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 14 (4.49%) SOC 2
3 10 (3.21%) HIPAA
3 10 (3.21%) QA
4 9 (2.88%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.56%) NIST
6 5 (1.60%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.60%) GRC
6 5 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.28%) PMO
8 3 (0.96%) PERC
8 3 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.64%) COBIT
9 2 (0.64%) DICOM
9 2 (0.64%) HL7
9 2 (0.64%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.64%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 24 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.96%) Docker
3 3 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.32%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.32%) Firmware
5 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (4.81%) Kubernetes
1 15 (4.81%) Terraform
2 11 (3.53%) CASB
3 6 (1.92%) Ansible
3 6 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.28%) SCCM
6 2 (0.64%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.32%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.32%) Grafana
7 1 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.32%) Kibana
7 1 (0.32%) Netcool
7 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.32%) Puppet
7 1 (0.32%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (0.32%) VxRail
Vendors
1 55 (17.63%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.49%) ServiceNow
3 12 (3.85%) Cisco
3 12 (3.85%) Oracle
4 11 (3.53%) SAP
5 9 (2.88%) IBM
5 9 (2.88%) Red Hat
5 9 (2.88%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.88%) VMware
6 7 (2.24%) Google
7 5 (1.60%) Dell
8 4 (1.28%) Ab Initio
8 4 (1.28%) F5
8 4 (1.28%) Hitachi
8 4 (1.28%) HP
8 4 (1.28%) Informatica
8 4 (1.28%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.96%) Apple
9 3 (0.96%) OneTrust
9 3 (0.96%) Splunk